Populist Parties in European Parliament Elections
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## Description

A dataset on the support for populist parties in elections for the European Parliament for the main ideational varieties of populist parties: left populists, right populists, and valence populists. The dataset provides temporal and spatial coverage including 92 populist parties that in at least one EP election over the period 1979-2019 received at least 1% of the votes.

## Variables

| Variable |  Description
| - | - 
| `country` | Country of party
| `year` | Year of election
| `party` | Name of party
| `party_name_short` | Short name of party
| `party_eng` | Name of party (in English)
| `vote_share` | Vote share (in %)
| `seats` | Number of seats
| `rightwing` | Populist party: Right-wing
| `radicalright` | Populist party: Radical right
| `leftwing` | Populist party: Left-wing
| `valence` | Populist party: Valence
